Buddy Zapata

------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------Go to http://www.myspace.com/thefairtrademovie and listen to music for the film. Included is two versions of 'Wayfaring Stranger' feat. Buddy Zapata------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------Two new demos have been added for your listening pleasure. "Blues no.3" feat. Angus Thomas and Victir Bisetti and "She Says" feat. Alvino Bennett and Angus Thomas and Mike Thompson. ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------"...For bringing his vision to life through his superb songwriting, singing and guitar playing, Zapata should be considered without a doubt, an American original, in the same vein as John Cage, Aaron Copeland, Bob Dylan and Leonard Bernstein." - Dennis Walker ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------"This collection of songs is very unique, and that makes it hard to describe. Might be considered a blues album, on another planet. It's fun, honest, and full of suprises. Easy to listen to and it won't be much like anything else in someone's collection. Bluesy guitar, vocals, some aural wierdness. I like it!" - Denny Freeman----------------------------------------------------- -------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------“I started playing with serious intent when I finished school and immediately fell in with some local LA blues acts, people who were much better than I who made me become a better player,” he says of musicians like Charlie Chan, Coco Montoya and Denny Freeman, among others.For the recording of Turo, he was assisted by producer and saxophonist Archie Thompson (Los Straitjackets) whose brother Mike Thompson (Eagles, Johnny Rivers) had been a longtime supporter of Buddy’s work.“Mike once convinced me not to quit music,” he says. “And Archie really helped step things up with his unusual ideas.” Zapata also credits a gang of session players who generously got on board for the project.These days his live band features bassist Angus “Bangus” Thomas (Miles Davis, John Mayall, Albert King) and drummer Victor Bisetti (Los Lobos, Leo Kottke and Mickey Hart’s Planet Drum). Stay tuned for more news on Zapata’s brand of junkshop blues as he prepares to tour his home state of California in 2007.“I think of my music as if it’s a curio shop, with broken pieces of dust-covered stuff scattered everywhere, a little bit of this and that, but it all means something to me,” he says.